KANPUR: The Crime branch of Commissionerate police busted oxygen black-marketing racket and recovered 51 cylinders after taking a gas agency owner in Govind Nagar area of the city in custody on Wednesday.

According to DCP (crime) Salman Taj Patil investigations revealed that the agency owner was involved in black marketing of oxygen cylinders. “Working on the complaints of black marketing of Oxygen cylinders, we zeroed in on the gas agency owner near Nad Lal crossing in Govindnagar area,” said Patil adding that, “We have seized nearly 51 big and small Oxygen gas cylinders from godwon and took agency owner Jaswant Singh into our custody for questioning.

We are seeking ledger details from him regarding sale and purchase of Oxygen cylinder in past few days. He will be booked under relevant sections of IPC if charges against him are found to be true.” To recall, the Kanpur unit of Special Task Force (STF) had on Thursday last arrested three people with 265 Remdesivir injections meant for sale in blackmarket. “Traders are cashing in on the virus ‘panic’ by jacking up prices of the product,” said Shahbuddin Shah, former general secretary Halim Mislim degree college. He further said that some of these cylinders were being sold to Covid-19 patients under home quarantine for as much as Rs 2,000- 3,000 per cylinder.

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